Pakistani wicketkeeper batter Mohammad Rizwan was on Thursday declared the ‘T20I Cricketer of the Year’ and the ‘Most Valuable Cricketer of the Year’ at the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Awards 2021.
The awards were held to celebrate the achievements of the men and women’s cricket teams through the year.
Mohammad Rizwan won the PCB’s ‘Most Valuable Cricketer of the Year’ award following a stellar 2021 in which he scored 455 Test, 134 ODI and 1,326 T20I runs, besides accounting for 56 batsmen behind the wickets across all formats.
For the ‘Most Valuable Cricketer of the Year award’, Rizwan beat the challenge of Babar Azam, Hasan Ali and Shaheen Shah Afridi, who also had an impressive and outstanding yea reflected in Pakistan’s overall performance in 2021.